Wallace Booth has one-track mind as

far as Walker Cup is concernted

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By Oliver Brown
The enduring allure of the Walker Cup is reflected in the attitude of Wallace Booth.
The Perthshire man has shelved all attempts at turning professional to concentrate on Great Britain and Ireland’s three-day amateur showpiece against the United States, which begins on Thursday on the fearsome course of Merion, Pennsylvania.
Booth had not entertained any notion of helping to regain the Walker Cup before he fell short last year at the European Tour qualifying school. Suddenly, the primacy of the professional game could be forgotten.
“It was a big disappointment,” said the 24 year-old from Perthshire. “But I was determined not to let it get me down. I took a long, hard look at my game and I decided I needed to work on certain things to get better.
“The Walker Cup was the goal. “Everything was focused on getting to Merion. I was desperate to make the team. When I got the call it justified all the hard work I’d put into my game.”
Booth brings an advantage to his team through his grounding on long, rough-dominated American courses, having taken the college golf route at Augusta State University. Most of his team-mates are unaccustomed to the improvised bunker shots that Merion’s deep greenside rough forces them to play - save for Chris Paisley, who represented Tennessee, and Gavin Dear, who spent four years at Lynn University in Boca Raton, Florida.